Can we ever be the same as we were? After 15 weeks of teaching college classes, I am unsure if we can.
It was the last class of the semester. When I said goodbye to my students, I sat alone in my office with the door closed. I took a deep breath and sighed, mentally worn out and emotionally uncertain.I have been teaching college for more than 20 years and have had every kind of student in my classes. For the most part, every class has had its unique level of engagement.
Without getting into the weeds about educational philosophies, my belief is one of progressivism and existentialism. Progressivism focuses on the whole student rather than the content of the teacher; it is learning by doing. The existentialist method emphasizes the individual. Learning includes a great deal of contact with the teacher and not necessarily in a traditional classroom.
And when some collective interaction returned, many students, like many of us, found it easier to be disengaged than engaged in the world. We had learned a new behavior. And even if we have remained curious — essential to the pursuit of knowledge — we have learned to hold it within. We have stunted our growth, and we have unwittingly accepted it.
I looked across my office from my desk. On the far wall is a large print of the great Edward Hopper painting “Nighthawks,” which depicts the harsh loneliness of American life, the solitude of strangers inside a late-night diner who are physically close, but psychologically miles apart. Not unlike our current world.
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